Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti - Softcover

Albers, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520235142 ISBN 13: 9780520235144

Publisher: University of California Press, 2002

Synopsis

Shadows, Fire, Snow Ten years of research and the discovery of long-forgotten letters and photos enabled the author to bring new recognition to this talented, intelligent, and independent photographer whose life embodied the cultural and political values of many artists of the post-World War I generation.

About this title

Review:

"Interesting, frustrating, saddening. Interesting because Modotti did inhabit many different lives; frustrating because so many questions are left unanswered here; saddening because in her effort to do 'good' for the Larger World, Modotti was directly or indirectly responsible for so much pain."--Carolyn See, "Washington Post

About the Author:

Patricia Albers is a writer and independent curator who has also worked as a museum administrator. In 1996 she organized the exhibition Dear Vocio: Photographs by Tina Modotti. And in 2000 she curated Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance, which traveled in Europe.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0520235142
• ISBN 13: 9780520235144
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 398